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You Can Make This Easy Pie Crust

January 21, 2022 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

Learn how to make this Easy Pie Crust. It’s fast, simple, and delicious! With just a few ingredients, you’ll have a flaky crust – ready for any filling you like!

*Scroll to the bottom for the printable recipes. Easy Pie Crust and Chocolate Chess Pie.

This post was meant to come out before Christmas but lots of things happened and this was not one of them.

But pie is good all year round so let’s make some pie!

Disclosure: I only recommend products I would use myself and all opinions expressed here are my own. This post contains affiliate links, which means I make a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Watch the video here:

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How to Sew a Beautiful Cushion Cover | Easy Zipper-free Envelope

January 17, 2022 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

Learn how to sew a lovely Cushion Cover with this step-by-step tutorial. This is an envelope style cover so no zipper needed!

A neighbor was throwing this out. Looks like they attempted to paint it blue and didn’t like the results. Looks good to me. I’m still deciding if I should cover the whole thing.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve taken on the huge task of slip covering our vintage couch.

It’s a big job but honestly not as hard as I thought it would be. One of the best parts was making the cushions!

partially finished couch clip cover with a cushion cover, all made out of bleached drop cloth — Here’s how it’s going pretty far. Work in progress and it’s being lived on by all of us. I’ll take some better pictures when it’s done.

If you make a bunch of piping beforehand, the cushion making process is pretty straightforward.

Check out my blogpost on how to make piping HERE. There are two videos so you can see the whole process.

I was able to make a smaller cushion cover for a chair upstairs in just one morning before my kids woke up. Mostly.

They were up just as I was finishing so I gave some morning hugs and listened to some wacky dream explanations 🙂

Watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/jqfyd2Aawjw

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How to Sew Piping for Upholstery | It’s Easy!

January 7, 2022 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

Piping is an easy way to add polish to any upholstery project. It’s great for re-upholstery, furniture covers, decorative pillows, and other craft projects.

Piping made from bleached drop cloth on a spool.

I’m using bleached drop cloth for my piping because that’s what I’m making our couch cover out of. It’s durable, bleachable, and has that home-spun, cottage vibe. So nice.

You can check out my blog post about making Drop Cloth Potholders. I talk all about how I bleached the drop cloth and materials to use.

*** This project can be as easy as cutting strips and sewing the cord in. I’m showing how I went about it and problems and solutions I found along the way.

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How to Make Drop Cloth Potholders | Last Minute Gift

December 18, 2021 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

Learn how to make lovely, durable, and inexpensive drop cloth potholders. You can make them for your own use or give them as handmade gifts from the heart.

drop cloth potholder with simple embroidered trees — This potholder remains unfinished as I write this because it’s not the boss of me.

I’m trying to make a couch cover for our awesome but currently sad, vintage couch out of drop cloth. We’ve had the couch for a few years and the arms are all ripped up. Six kids are hard on furniture! My two year old will now watch cartoons while he absent-mindedly picks fluff out of it. Yikes.

I saw a few people use bleached drop cloth to make furniture covers so I’m going that route. It’s durable and you can bleach the heck out of it, which will come in handy with a million sticky fingers on the loose.

I’ll have to finish it and live with it for a few months before I can form my own opinion about its effectiveness.

Hopefully, I won’t have wasted my time when I’m finished and I’ll share the process with you guys.

As a result of this large sewing project, I have a lot of scrap drop cloth to use up.

Please watch the video along with the tutorial for the drop cloth potholders. It can be a little confusing trying to explain some of the steps but the video clears things up.

Plus you’ll be supporting my Youtube channel and I really appreciate that! 😊

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How to Make the Best Butternut Squash Soup | Cozy Autumn Dinner

November 24, 2021 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

Learning how to make the Best Butternut Squash Soup is easy! Roasting the squash takes hardly any effort and the ingredient list is short.

You could make it and get on with your day likety-split.

butternut squash soup in a white bowl with grilled cheese triangles

More time for hiding in laundry baskets because you don’t want your hair brushed.

I can never find any hair brushes in our house so I buy more and they disappear too. Maybe they’re at a party with all our scissors.

Watch the video here:

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The Best Apple Pie Filling with Fuji Apples

November 13, 2021 by goodenoughandstuff 2 Comments

This Apple Pie Filling is the best! It’s tangy and sweet and perfect for that pie crust you’ve been eyeing at the store. It’s also a great topping for just about anything! Eat it with ice cream, on pancakes, in a crescent, on a cake or in a pie. It’s delicious! Scroll to the bottom of the post for the printable recipe card.

apple pie filling on a white cake on a white plate with white frosting drizzle and a fork. — This time I made a cake.

Apples are great because you can let them sit on your counter for a month, (while your 13 year old complains daily because they’re in his chore) and they won’t go bad… mostly.

I bought a large box of Fuji apples because I thought I liked Fuji apples.

Turns out they’re gross and really plain. At least this box was.

No tartness at all, barely sweet. Bleh.

So now I had a an entire box of unpalatable apples to use up.

There’s nothing like a large pile of apples staring at you for a month to make you feel like a failure.

But who’s laughing now, you dang apples?!

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Really Easy and Fun Halloween Activity for Kids | Sensory Bin

October 21, 2021 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

Entertain your kids for hours with this fun Halloween activity! Kids of all ages enjoy digging around to find their favorite Halloween toy! Even my middle schoolers love playing with it! It’s cheap and easy and quick to put together.

hands digging in a bin of dry black beans and Halloween toys for a Halloween activity

If you’ve never made a sensory bin for your kids before, you’re missing out! I even like playing with it!

Check out the video:

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What To Do With All Those Peaches | Three Easy Peach Recipes

September 25, 2021 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

Try these three delightful peach recipes! They are refreshing, easy to follow, and delicious. Nothing says “Summer!” like sweet, juicy peaches. Let’s try out some different ways to eat them. Scroll to the bottom for the printable recipes.

peaches cut in half for three peach recipes

Peaches are just such a “Summer” thing. Peaches, watermelon, strawberries, cucumbers! You can almost feel the heat of the sun and the spray of the sprinklers. Hear the lawn mowers and airplanes and kids screaming in delight.

I’m posting this just after summer is over this year because I’ve had blog stuff on the back burner for about a month. But it’s never too late to eat some summery food 🙂

When I was little my mom would sometimes get an entire box of peaches during the summer.

10 kids, 6 perms, and a dog who would bite you if you tried to pet him while he was sleeping.

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How to Make Delicious Wild Mustang Grape Jelly

August 14, 2021 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

Come learn how to pick, cook, and can your own Mustang Grape Jelly. Tangy, sweet, and wild. This grape jelly is gonna knock your socks off!

mustang grape jelly in a crystal bowl — Wow! That color is amazing!

I’m not typically a grape jelly fan. I’ve mentioned this before. Growing up we mostly only had two kinds of jelly: strawberry and grape. There was nothing exciting about either of those but I definitely preferred the strawberry to the grape any day.

I almost never buy grape jelly as an adult. And now, much to my surprise, grape is the “special” jelly for my kids! I guess because it’s so “rare”.

My oldest, Noah, is especially obsessed with it. He loves to put a dollop on just about anything. Biscuits, muffins, eggs, ham sandwiches, burgers. You name it-he’ll give it a go.

And this wild Mustang Grape Jelly has become a new star in our house. The grape flavor is so intense and tart. I’m gonna follow my son’s footsteps and try it on everything too!

mustang grape vines hanging over a walking path with two children

The Spikes of Life

We love tromping around the woods and ponds in our area of Texas.

little boy playing in the pond — Davey was loving all the tadpoles and minnows.

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What Should I Make for Dinner? | Easy Summer Sandwich Idea

July 31, 2021 by goodenoughandstuff Leave a Comment

This sandwich idea has it all. Light and refreshing. Healthy and satisfying. Fast and simple to make. Try it today for a no-cooking lunch or dinner.

a sandwich idea with ham, cucumbers, carrots and onions on toast

It’s summer. I don’t know why but I thought I would have more time to relax when Summer arrived. Longer days, no homeschool, loosy-goosy schedule. But I feel just as busy- if not more.

I don’t want to spend a lot of time or brain power on dinner time. My husband, Nathan, is naturally gifted with knowing how flavors and spices will go together. He can whip up the tastiest things, seemingly out thin air. And using things I never would have thought to put together.

Watch the video here:

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